Eating lessons : Lydgate's "dietary" and consumer conduct -- "For manners make man" : Bourdieu, de Certeau, and the common appropriation of noble manners in the Book of Courtesy -- "Nouvelles choses" : social instability and the problem of fashion in the Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry, the Ménagier de Paris, and Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus -- The Miroir des bonnes femmes : not for women only? -- Fathers to think back through ; the middle high German mother-daughter and father-son advice poems known as Die Winsbeckin and der Winsbecke -- Gendered theories of education in fifteenth-century conduct books -- Constructing the female subject in late medieval devotion -- Conducting gender : theories and practices in Italian confraternity literature -- Grace under pressure : conduct and representation in the Norwich heresy trials.
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Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy-conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records-the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends.